SBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, SALI ‘“ Dock-tailed Horses’ and Scull Jackasses. The Somerset [Flerald is evidently very sorry that the Quay machine, of which the Herald is a part and parcel, could not in asneaking and underhand- ed way defeat Joseph E. Thropp for Congress. In commenting on Mr. Thropp’s election, last week, the Her- ald sneeringly remarked as follows: “Dock-tailed horses” is not a winning issue in the Twentieth Congressional | District. Joseph KE. Thropp carries the district by a little better than 2,000. He loses his own county of Bedford by a large majority, carries Blair by a re- | duced majority, is defeated in Cam- | bria, but his bacon is saved by the loyal Republicans of Somerset county. 1ol- lowing are the unoflicial majorities: Blair county, Thropp, 1500 Somerset Co., * 2355 Bedford county, Walters, 991 Cambria county, te 700 to a business policy that makes folks want to deal with us. Everything in our stock is choice, well made and has the stamp of merit upon it, no matter how small the price. It will pay you to see our new fall exhibits, even if you live twenty miles away. = & \ 2 < ER 7 em i a 3855 1691 J a ou S3.25 Our $325 Iron Beds can’t be beat any place for the money. Seeing is believing ~~ Drop in and convince your- self of the bargains we offer. Center Tables, 11x16, 55 cents. Couches, $5.75. Thropp’s plurality, 2164 | Now, Tie Star cannot see anything | | to sneer at, but “Timmie” Scull is noted | for sneering and snickering when can- | $18.00 Parlor Suite. Mahogany fin- | didates are elected whom he has reason ish, highly polished, artistic in design | to believe will refuse to have their legs aL i. | pulled by his royal Seullship. Jecause 6-foot Extension Tables, $3.50. { Mr. Thropp refused to have his leg pull- ed for $60, at Windber, during the cam- { paign, may have something to do with | I \1-F- Sy ~~ | I: ] ‘ | ~ : - | the disorder of “Timmie spleen. ndertakine and tmbalming “ae of “dock-tailed | oO DO | horses,” “bacon” and “loyal Republi- | os . . el =. v : avi promptly attended to. Night calls answered at our store, where an electric | cans” all in one item, but the braying of a Scull jackass no longer counts for call bell will be found on our door. i ! {much in Somerset county, and we | I would consider it safe to bet that none | | of the Sculls were of the loyal Republi- { cans that helped to elect Mr. Thropp. And why associate the word “bacon” with Mr. Thropp’s name? When kd- ward Scull was elected to (Congress, the { Herald always aflixed “Hon.” to his | name, but in Mr. Thropp’s case the old { faded fairy the word “bacon.” | This may be because Mr. Thropp re- 20: 0 SN speaks Johnson & NM cCualloh, ELK LICK, PENNA. 3 Ba Y xX > XN \ od x a = | fused to stand and deliver to the old “4 ! | AND— fe aT jaang But, be that it -may, Mr. | | a 17 J NTN Thropp will doubtless consider the lL . Y aE source, the loyal Republicans of uses ° : as as Homerset county will do. Following is a bit of past history for Fimmie’s” benefit. In 1890, when Ed- ward Scull was elected to Congress for | the last tine, the vote of the district | We have largely increased our stock of goods and are better prepared than ever to ACCOMMODATE THE PUBLIC. We want your trade and we will do our best to was as follows: Greevy, D. Scull. R. Nomerset Bedford 17,434 16,908 make “it profitable and interesting for you to do 16,908 business with us. | { Scull’s majority. { ° ib ° | The above figures are from the Her- . Y ) AY 2 DY I2th, 1890. By comparing - 11] > e 10) ev x C Jd] 11 CI [them with the figures of Thropp and [ Walters, we fail to see where “Timmie” has any grounds for sneering at Thropp | and making use of such slurs as “dock- | I tailed horses,” “bacon,” ete. ald of Nov, is full of MEN'S, LADIE’S, CHILDREN’S and SCHOOL SHOES; MENS’, LADIE’S and CHILL- DREN’S RUBBERS and ARCTICS. UNDERWEAR for everybody and a full line of MEN'S and BOYS’ FALL and WINTER CLOTHING. 7 ak Defacing Rural Scenery. | New York Tribune. The defacement of rural scenery by | ugly advertisements on fences, rocks [ and barns is an old story; but in spite of frequent and vigorous protests the evil custom appears to continue. This is largely because many farmers have not a keen appreciation of the artistic offense of such advertisements. They are a good illustration of the adage that | familiarity centempt. They have spent their whole lives amid the beauties of nature, with the result that their eyes are blinded to those beau- ties. In this respect they are no worse | than city people,who, for the same rea- son, are almost wholly indifferent to excrescences that mar the beauty of j city streets and buildings. Tt | hard to the harried farmer | | when he sniffs contemptuously at the | | city botanist or entomologist who raves over those two enemies of the farmer, “pesky weeds” and “bugs.” Nor is it | strange that he sees little picturesque | | beauty in the straggling fence which it time and effort Keep “bull proof,” or perhaps even “hog | proof ” and “hen proof.” Why. there- | fore, he asks himself, should he not make three or four dollars a year by renting it to an advertising agent? Nevertheless, there is good reason to Very Respectfully, Barchus & ILiavengood, : : Salisburv, Penna. breeds S Hisher’s Book Store, SOMERSET, PA. WHOLESLAE AND RETAIL! DODO VDODOD is not | excuse This large and pushing establishment sells at wholesale to 90 town and country merchants in this and adjoining counties. | Its wholesale trade extends into Maryland and West Virginia. We are at all times prepared to compete in prices with the city . costs him so much to | markets. | At this season we are specially pushing School Books and School Supplies. Our stock of these goods is large, full and complete, and the prices lowest wholesale. Special attention is also being given to Holiday We are also doing a nice trade in Miscellaneous Books and Baby Goods. | | believe that the majority of farmers | such ad- | vertising defaces, and therefore de- | preciates their property. This, at least, ery and Harmonicas. Merchants and others can buy of us to ad- | is the opinion of Dr. G. Alder Blumer, vantage, Tablets, Inks, Pens, Pencils, Envelopes, Bill Books and | Medical Superintendent of the Utica | 1 C Pp F inp Blatik Books. Tudeinont Not | State Hospital for the Insane. Not | Legal Cap Papers, Fountain Pens, Blan oks, udgment Notes; |, "20 his attention was called to | Receipt Books, School Books and Supplies, Miscellaneous Books | the work of the English Society for the and such oter goods as are usually for sale in an up-to-date Book, | Control of the Abuses of Public Adver- | News and Stationery Store. | tising commonly known as the Scapa. = - AS. ® - @ This society has already done much | and Doll Carriages. Constantly in stock a full line of Staple and F a ancy Station- | { | | 3 x | can be easily convinced that { | to reform the abuses of outdoor adver- tising, and Dr. Blumer has undertaken, here” displayed. | the expiration of the contract. | his first Committee | eyesores., ‘every { matter. | School houses | some | [cull henchmen out fee the { pose in this county, Thropp and supporters put up a magnificent battle. | aggregated | period in | said last year that the record of such { exports could not be kept up under the | new tariff bill, but they cannot dispute | { or overcome the logic of figures.—Jin- | missed. ever, on another charge—~Loi:acowing | PA. on his own account, to work a reform in his own neighborhood on similar lines. The road between Utica and his country home was defaced by many signs, some of which were out of keep- ing with the rural surroundings. He communicated with the farmers and others owning the adjoining property, and requested them to have the ad- vertisements withdrawn, and a neat tin sign reading “No ‘ads’ allowed In a majority of cases he found that the property own- ers were more than willing to do as he requested. Even those who were be- ing paid for the advertising privilege promised not to renew the privilege at When their attention was called to the mat- | ter they saw how disfiguring such ad- | vertisements are, not to speak of the | fact that property so defaced is cheap- | { ened and vulgarized. success, Dr. Blumer has now | attacked another road, that to White-! Encouraged by boro, and through the local Good Roads he hopes to circulate great many “Scapa” appeals to farmers to keep their property free from such | Ie has also made arrange- ments to address meetings of farmers on the subject, and by interesting oth- | er peonle in the movement he is arous- | ing a public sentiment on the subject | that is likely to effect a wholesome re- { form. What Dr. Blumer is doing in his own neighborhood might be done also in other neighboorhood. All that is needed is that some one shall call the attention of property owners io the i And in order to stimulate in- terest it would be a good thing to or- ganize something like the Iinglish “Scapa,” with local officers in different parts of the country. While the function of such a society would be simply to persuade, we are confident that its efforts would be, in nearly all cases, successful, and that it would soon create sentiment subject that few property owners would permit such advertisements on their a society ) so strong a on the fences. Tre smallest showing of commercial failures recorded for any month for five years: past that for the month August, 1898, after one full year of the is Dingley tariff. Garrerr county, Md , voted down by the of bonds to build needed school houses, and by so over 600 votes issue doing a great sin was committed against i the rising generation of that county. fortification of | are the | the Republic, and Garrett county can- I not afford to stand in its own light. Joserir BE. Turorr is to be congratu- Inted on his election to Congress, but | would he be without his hand- majority county? Wirth Quay boodlers at work in Blair to defeat the noted where in Somerset him, and some of Doerixa the first seven months of the | present year our manufactured exports $178,334,867, as compared | | with $£166,706,398 in the corresponding 1897. Democratic crokers neapolis Journal. Hox. W. 11. Kooxrtz ought to set ’em Just glance over returns wr: Ta? Qarl up to Timmie' Scull. the oflicial etection the of the ceived, and all this in face the “General” for years. any candidate for oflice to have the Heralds influence against him, for the people have learned that “Timmie” al- ways fights the best men in the Repub- lican party. It will pay Ar the Circuit court, on Saturday, August Wagner was put on trial for stealing a horse. [Iis counsel, after the testimony had shown that the_ stolen | point | which the! animal was a mare, raised the that “a mare is not a horse,” court held good, and the case was dis- | Wagner was detained, how- E Review. All mares mares. liorses, but not The Circuit are horses are some horse sense. Durixa the political campaign just closed, Wm. A. Stone was charged with | being a mere tool in the hands-of M. §. Quay, and that if elected Quay would ! virtually be the Governor of this com- monwealth. This assertion was bitterly denied by Mr. Stone, who declared that he was owned by no man, and that if a | of | some pur- | his | and see | | what a splendid vote Mr. Koontz re- all | court | referred to hy the Review ought to learn | clean administration. Enough people believed Mr. Stone to elect him, and now, if he does as he promised, he will go out of office with honor and greater prominence in his party than when he was clected. IN a famous lecture Henry Ward Beecher once said: “The thoughtless farmer premits his potatoes to rot in the cellar. The arising miasma finds its way through the floor and perme- ates carpets and furniture and beds. Baby falls sick of a fever, and presently is carried tenderly away to its tiny mound in the cemetery. Its grief- stricken parents mourn for a season, and finally become reconciled with the consoling thought that it is all some- | how a providence of God. It isno such thing. God has had nothing todo with [it. It is all due to rotten potatoes.” NEW YoRKERS, and others, too, like to characterize Philadelphians as “slow.” Whatever the basis of this character- lization, it is certain that the Philadel- phia Board of Trade has not been “slow” to recognize American interests or “slow” to work for those interests. | Board of Trade, it was “urge Congress to consider at the ap- At a recent meeting of the Philadelphia | Several days ago Mr. Amos Thomas had a warrant issued for the arrest of Theodore Wagner and James Michaels, on the charge of wilfully and malicious- ly shooting his cat. Mr. Thomas claims that the lads shot toward his house when they killed his cat and that they concealed themselves behind a big rock before doing the shooting, so that they would not be detected. He also claims that they were trespassing at the time the shooting was done, and furthermore that neither one of them is fit to carry or handle a gun. We do not know whether the boys are guilty of killing the eat or not, but we do know that there are too many silly young goslings allowed to handle fire- arms in and around this town. The average boy with a gun is a menace to I his own life as well as to the lives of | | others. Parents make a great mistake in allowing boys in the bitter-apple | period of life to roam about the woods | with guns. In nine cases out of ten a good white thorn rod, well applied to their bocks, would do them much more | good. Wagner and Michaels have been ar- (rested, but we have not yet learned of resolved to! proaching session what action is need- | | ed to restore to the United States the | {under the American flag.” The will also seek the aid of other boards of | trade and of the press. Similar action | throughout the country would probably of Congress toward enacting legislation in aid of American shipping. Asamat- ter of fact, some of the “fastest” things done anywhere for the benefit of Amer- ican trade, commerce and industry are being done right along in Philadelphia. In this regard that substantial and sue- cessful city might well pot2 as a model for the rest of the country. Tie Pennsylvania railroad company has had 5,000 ears constructed during this year and it has found that they are not. enough to meet the mand, and President Thomson has de- cided to have 2,000 more box ears built, The contract for tneir econstruetion will be given out at once. age of cars all over the country, and the railroads are taxed to their utmost capacity to move the freight. A prom- inent freight oflicial even predicts that | or three weeks the car -famine that the country has ever experienced will be on. Between the Pittsburgdistrict and | the Chiengo district, and throughout for the next two most formidable on the part of other boards of trade | % 2 Ta | my. of sores, burns fr S. ocean carrying trade in vessels sailing | Sond Nounos board | any further developments in the case. ri ce i re aim Soothing healing, cleansing, De Witt’s Witch ITazel Salve is the implacable ene- It never fails to cure piles. P.S. Hav, Elk Lick, Pa, ere ete srt Incendiarism. Several unsuccessful attempts have | € ] | recently been made to burn what is | have great weight with Congress and | | might secure speedy action on the part | known as the Sam Devore house, in Garrett, and in there are also evidences of incendiarism, as B. J. Bow- Jerlin | man’s furniture store has twice been | mans Store i will send you present de- | There is a short- | | ding itself of waste matter. fired in speaking of a manner. In the Berlin Record says a letter was recently re- ceived by Ed Baker, the only colored citizen of that town, which was worded as follows: “Ed Baker if you will burn Ben bow- $25.00 do it right go in late at night the hind way ben has been A thorn my {flesh I WILL SHOW HIM” Baker promptly mysterious this matter, in turned the letter tover to Mr. Bowman, who is making a | quiet effort to discover the person who wrote it. Constipation prevents the body from rid- De Witt’s Lit- Risers will remove the trouble le Karly | and cure sick headache, biliousness, inac- the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illi- | nois and Michigan the roads are prob- | ably short on orders ten per cent. of the necessary equipment to take care | of the offered by shippers. The late wheat crop and the corn crop business | next two weeks. Then it will not be a of furnishing cars. In view of the shortage it was announced on Iriday that the western lines had ordered an | advance in freight rates classes, and it is believed that this the beginning of a general restoration of rates. r on is Fifth Regiment Mustered Out. The Fifth regiment was mustered out, last week, and our soldier boys are now private citizens. The | Company I received their pay and were boys mustered out in Somerset, last I'riday, { and by this time-all have doubtless re- | turned to their homes, where a hearty | abuse the Herald, “Timmie’s old faded | fairy of a paper, has been heaping on | welcome awaited them. | i battle, these men nevertheless enlisted for the purpose of fighting Spaniards, | and they are heroes none the less, Some will begin to move freely within the | tive liver and ¢lear the complexion. Small, sugar coated, don’t gripe or cause nausea. P. 8. Hay, Elk Lick, Pa. Candidates For the Penitentiary. [For some time there has been a great deal of reckless shooting done about this town, and if the persons guilty of it persist in their outrageous conduct, are to get trouble. Several persons (and it is pretty well they going into serious | known who they are) are in the habit i question of rates, but simply a question | of filling up on rot-gut whisky, then go- | ing about town yelling like wild sav- | | ages and shooting recklessly in all di- | rections. certain | { Some of tne houseson Union street are full of bullet holes, and just ! lately a bullet came crashing through {one of the windows of the A. P. Beachy { building, on Ord street, in which James | Dann and family reside. | were of | vig i the deadly missile | him. Mr. Dunn says he and his family in bed the bullet through a window of his bedroom, and same near striking did the when came He elaims to know who i shooting, and he says if there is any Although none of the Fifth regiment | { had an opportunity to participate in a { Cure. more of it, somebody is going to get in- { to trouble. Overcome evil with good. Overcome your coughs and colds with Ope Minute Cough 2 Ter . It is so good childeen: cry for “it. It | cures croup, bronchitis, pneumonia, grippe j of them had experience that was as | | = . . {trying as the battle-field, and one of! them, Wilson Eaos, a Salisbury boy, | { died in the service of his country. This was the only death in Company I, but | a number of the other boys had a close eall. Daniel Thomas, of West Salisbury, [ who was sick at a Chickamauga hospit- al for several months, has recovered and is expected home this week. lle | will probably be the last of Company I [to leave the hospitals, where a good many of them had been down with burning fevers. Well, it is all over now, and the boys are no doubt glad that they enlisted. They saw some hard times, to be sure, { but they gained some valuable exper- | and all throat and lung disease. P. 8S. Hay, Elk Lick, Pa. A Family Row. Last Saturday Robt. K. Showalter got into an altereation with his mother- in-law, Mrs. llenry DeHaven, owing to a aispute over some household goods. iepee, and besides that, it is an honor | | American war, or America’s war for One Minute Cough Cure, cures. That is what it was made for. to have been a soldier in the Spanish- | : ; | out harm tothe sufferer the better. Linger- ying colds are dangerous. humanity, as John J. Ingall’s terms it. Angry words were exchanged, and it is alleged that Robert drew a revolver and threatened to kill both his mother- in-law and his wife. This lead to his arrest and commitment to jail. : This week, however, friends secured Robert's release, and whether the mat- ter will be settled in court or by the warring parties themselves, remains to be seen. Robert’s family relations have been very unpleasant for some time. The sooner a cough or cold is cured with- Hacking cough is distressing. One Minute Cough Cure quick- ly cures it. Why suffer when such a cough cure is within reach? It is pleasant to the taste. DI. S. Hay, Elk Lick, Pa.
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